Nick Mecikalski is a Brooklyn-based novelist, playwright, and screenwriter originally from Madison, Alabama. He specializes in science fiction and dystopian satire. He was featured in Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2020 Underground Reading Series with his play Bad Star, and his play Really Really Gorgeous (a Finalist for the 2017 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference) was produced off-off-Broadway at The Tank in 2020. He has also had his plays developed and/or staged at such companies as IRT Theater, Dixon Place, and Nashville Repertory Theatre. He is a two-time alumnus of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Theater Institute and a graduate of Vanderbilt University.